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Batting average
  
.269

Role
  
Baseball player

Name
  
Sammy Strang

Runs batted in
  
253

Home runs
  
16


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Died
  
March 13, 1932, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Samuel Strang Nicklin (December 16, 1876 – March 13, 1932) was a professional baseball player for the Louisville Colonels (1896), Chicago Orphans (1900 and 1902), New York Giants (1901 and 1905–08), Chicago White Sox (1902) and Brooklyn Superbas (1903–04).

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Biography

Strang was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He helped the Giants win the 1905 World Series. He led the National League in On-base percentage (.423) in 1906. In 10 seasons he played in 903 games and had 16 home runs, 253 RBI, 216 stolen bases and a .269 batting average.

After his playing career, he was the baseball coach at Georgia Tech in 1902 and Army from 1909 to 1917. Strang died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at age 55. He was buried in its National Cemetery.

Sammy was a descendant of John Penn, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was a distant relative of First Lady Laura Bush

References

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